ently with tlirs ideal of a voluptuous Divinity, taught,
con tray to the teachings of all previous reformers, that
the Deity was to be worshipped "not in nudity and1
hunger, but in costly apparel and choice food, not in
solitude and mortifications but in the pleasures of society,,
and the enjoyments of the world.'' The Gos&ins, or
spiritual guides of the se&s founded by him unlike the
spiritual guides of the se&s we have been treating of
hitherto, are as a rule, family men, well-clothed and
well-fed. The ValUbhach£ris are principally recruited
from well-to-do mercantile communities ; and the spiri-
tual guides themselves often do not consider it inconsis-
tent with their character to engage in trade. The
temples and establishments of the Vallabhdchiris are
most numerous at Mathurd and Vriadivana ; the Utter
of which is said to contain many hundreds.

Contemporary with Vallabh£ch£rya was a reformer
of a different type, of the type of
Gautama the Buddha. Chaitanya was
born at Nadiyd, in Bengal, in A. D. 1485* At twenty--
four, he left home and becoming an ascetic spent the
next six years in travelling and "reaching, gathering
round him. numerous followers. In 1515, he settled at
Nilkchala near Katak, where he spent the remainder of
his life in ecstatic meditation of Krishna. There is a
tradition, that during a fit of trance produced by such
mediUtiont he saw Krishna, R£dh£ and other celestial
beings sporting in the blue waters of the sea near Katak
and walked into it to share their company; his body is
said to* have been subsequently caught in a fisherman's